The Blender to Unreal Engine Workflow

[@alestoryboards]

Basically model/retopo your stuff in blender and then do the rest in unreal (rigs/animation,render?!)

[@Bulborb1]

Model, sculpt, bake, unwrap low poly/retopo etc in blender. You can even texture procedurally then iterate inn unreal engine.

[@hellerart]

If you have an experimental workflow like me, where modelling and animation is not devided moving to unteal is next to impossible - probably I will use unreal for 10% - I would love to build some scenes specially around fluid ninjas features in unreal. And of course heavy nanite stuff.

[@christiankurschat5292]

​@@Hemlok69 and u6⁷

[@carlosdorantes9792]

Yup

[@swancoffeehouse5983]

​@@Bulborb1I just skip the whole sculp mumbo jumbo. Everything is box modelled. No retopo needed.

[@NPC_YouTube]

i've been a 3d artist for 3 years now... I now just realized and learned to use boleans as a geometry clean up tool from now! thank you!

[@blwho8881]

Seems a bit tedious just select the faces and delete them

[@ThadeousM]

[4:37] If you do want to bring all objects over in 1 FBX file whilst retaining their individual origns: 1. Parent all objects to an empty in blender 2. Select empty last - Export fbx (selection only) 3. Import to UE as a "FBX scene" This will result in a "master" origin point represented by the empty, whilst each individual section retains its own vector data.

[@AlfeYT]

This is the GOAT tip

[@Battleevents]

"Allah! There is no god but He - the Living, The Self-subsisting, Eternal. No slumber can seize Him Nor Sleep. His are all things In the heavens and on earth. Who is there can intercede In His presence except As he permitteth? He knoweth What (appeareth to His creatures As) Before or After or Behind them. Nor shall they encompass Aught of his knowledge Except as He willeth. His throne doth extend Over the heavens And on earth, and He feeleth No fatigue in guarding And preserving them, For He is the Most High. The Supreme (in glory)." [Surah al-Baqarah 2: 255]

[@TanHanWei]

Thanks a lot for this!!

[@AbyssalSoda]

Haven't tried it but defs an excellent piece of advice

[@GohersWay]

+1

[@fionahonohan2757]

It's almost been a year since I joined the 3D world by starting with Blender, and then I felt the need to learn Unreal Engine 5 (UE5). The information you shared in the video was very accurate, and I have had the same experiences.

[@Fafhrd42]

For the issue where a person has done scene layout in Blender (or another DCC), and exported the entire scene as an FBX and is importing it into Unreal, the best way to import it into Unreal is to use File->Import Into Level, instead of just dragging and dropping the FBX into the Unreal editor. This preserves instancing, origins, and transforms. (Also, somewhat counterintuitively, you'll want to tick the 'Apply Transform' box when exporting the FBX from Blender, otherwise the meshes will be imported as 1 Blender Unit = 1 Unreal Unit, and an Unreal Unit is a centimeter, so they'll be tiny) The biggest downside to this method is that it *does* make re-importing individual meshes of that scene a little more complicated. You can either make individual FBXes for each of the meshes and import them separately and then change the reference for the mesh actor in the level, or you can go through the re-import dialogue and manually select the mesh you want to re-import.

[@RobertVanderStelt]

The lighting you have in your office is soooooo nice.

[@frostydelusions3066]

Error at 2:55 is caused by your static mesh and texture having the same name, use the recommended UE naming conventions in Blender or else you will regret it later. "SM_Skeleton_01" for the Static Mesh and "M_Skeleton_01" for the Material, your maps need proper names too like "T_Skeleton_01_N" for the Normal Map. Also when importing a Normal Map created in Blender make sure you flip the Green Channel in UE.

[@DodaGarcia]

I wonder if that's the reason why a fully rigged character that I imported for Blender became a fucking Skulltula the second I pressed play in Unreal. It was traumatic.

[@ooffs_artflows]

W comment thanks

[@JonMurray]

@@DodaGarciahahaha!

[@sortakalpuyu]

hey where are you learning all of these

[@amosdotl6892]

Blender comment added.

[@sd.creative]

Glad to hear that I’m not the only one that doesn’t know which program to use and for what.

[@FizzleStudiosLtd]

4:33 IF you are importing entire scenes / sets of meshes from blender you can quite easily change the pivot point for each object as needed. After importing, in the unreal editor modeling mode select your object, select the pivot option in the menu and select center. This will modify the pivot points for all instances of this mesh. Great tutorial, cheers!

[@Josh_Alfaro]

Me watching this not knowing how to use either

[@Taggedaslitho]

Same

[@Chillobserver]

You can always learn

[@NilayEmrah]

Their tech setup for bets is so advanced yet so user friendly, love it 🖥️💕

[@Thesupperals]

Hey, just a helper here! Try to export with the USD file extension. It'll save you a lot of time. Also, lastly- you need to set each individual game object with individual origins. This is why you have the issue found in 4:55.

[@facepunchoclock2878]

You casually revealed the solution to a problem I‘ve been having for weeks. Subscribed!

[@musashidanmcgrath]

A tip for the pivot offset when you import a full scene: you can hold Alt+MMB to move the pivot independently of the mesh. This is a one-time effect(good for a single translation) You can set the new pivot location permanently by right clicking the static mesh in the viewport>pivots>use one of the options.

[@PrawnKing89]

Dude this is scary. I was literally looking for this EXACT topic and your video posted WITHIN THE HOUR. Awesome content. You have a new follower

[@shivendrapawar9618]

Same here!

[@AeleksDesigns]

If you want to keep the origins of multiple meshes within a single exported .fbx file intact, make sure you select ".fbx scene" when in the "select asset to import"-window (unreal), not just .fbx ... it not a bug, its a feature (seemingly nobody knows about) ;)

[@coltish]

How did you know this is the content I needed right now?

[@krystoferbelknap806]

Bro this video really just confirmed all my hopes for adapting to UE5 with a blender/c4d brain. Thank you...

[@Yeye10000]

I’m barely getting in to blender don’t know anything at all but still seeing this video as if I understood anything you go over haha

[@PythonArms]

really cool! Thanks for making this video!

[@asr59]

4:28 that's not the only problem. Another problem is that will import the same mesh several times, instead of importing it once and instance it on the level.

[@josephdungan3566]

Thanks for sorting that all out on video. I'm trying to teach high school film students both programs so they can get more creative with what they create. This video is something I can definitely share with them.

[@armondtanz]

Ypu should look at reallusion. Im not very good a some things and that program helps me beyond all. CC4 & IC8 is a lifesaver ;) Theres a ic8 to unreal plug in that makes all the complex materials connect automatically (saving valuable time). Animation is sweet. Mocap clean up. Character Creator for creating humans and monsters.

[@RinaldoPalazuelos]

1:55

[@RinaldoPalazuelos]

🎉 2:25

[@bazebaze2657]

there is also a blender to unreal plugin that is really useful when correctly setup

[@timothycook]

Yeah, Unreal's official "Send to Unreal" add-on is pretty powerful.

[@jasoncourrau]

If you want to make complex materials in blender and import them to unreal, just bake the different PBR "slots" before hand. You can do it in blender, and there are nice plug-ins for it

[@ribthiefz8283]

Which one do you recommend?

[@scrunkus]

@@ribthiefz8283 Principled Baker is what I use, great quality bakes that are easy and fast to do. It's also free

[@ToddSiechen-ud3et]

"And some fun foliage over there"... this is exactly my thought process when Im walking through the forest, "Oh look, some fun foliage over there.... and right here is some fun foliage, and FF EVERYWHERE!!"

[@RealSpacial]

thank you for this, i was debating on which platform to start with and this video gave me a really good POV

[@LearnAsUGrow501]

Hello everyone. I am still green. I used to play around with Blender. Also used to play around with Unreal Engine 2 4 So much has changed I am sure. Looking forward to taking the next 2 years in Learning both. Namaste Dave Ross

[@trunks2713]

Welp, I needed this video. thank you!

[@TheHassoun9]

for the 4:35 you can separate by loose part in blender, and do origin to geometry, now every object have its own parent bone and rotate around itself

[@BluesBlueable]

Can't wait for the movie: The Sword In a Stump 😜🔥🔥🔥

[@j.m5888]

Great video, very clear! Thanks a lot!

[@6Four6666]

I started mixing the blender with the unreal engine month ago and I thought I was the only one doing this!!!

[@JonathanWinbush]

Very informative 👊🏾

[@AmIAFilmmaker]

👊 Thanks! I've been learning from the best 😉

[@JonathanWinbush]

@@AmIAFilmmaker Appreciate it buddy, we should collab on a tutorial as I get a lot of questions about Blender but I barely know it

[@studiodevis]

@@JonathanWinbush Todd & Jonathan, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship ...

[@AmIAFilmmaker]

Oh man I'd be all about that! Down to collab any time.

[@christiandebney1989]

datasmith for 3dsmax is great as you can select all your objects and it brings them in exactly where they were so you can alter and swap out.

[@keeleycarrigan]

Wanna hear more about what is best for each program. Keep it up

[@Gordoxgrey]

5:26 If you want any interactable cloth Simulation (Like cloaks or hair) it's best to do the cloth simulation in Unreal Engine and not have things in the sequencer

[@Battleevents]

"Allah! There is no god but He - the Living, The Self-subsisting, Eternal. No slumber can seize Him Nor Sleep. His are all things In the heavens and on earth. Who is there can intercede In His presence except As he permitteth? He knoweth What (appeareth to His creatures As) Before or After or Behind them. Nor shall they encompass Aught of his knowledge Except as He willeth. His throne doth extend Over the heavens And on earth, and He feeleth No fatigue in guarding And preserving them, For He is the Most High. The Supreme (in glory)." [Surah al-Baqarah 2: 255]

[@zerefdragneel661]

​@@Battleeventsk

[@aCrimsonMonarch]

to be honest, you dont need to thank us for watching, me myself watching you because i need to know and some advise for which one is better between unreal and blender, turnout combining them is the best choice, thank you for the vid sir

[@ahsanulhasanturzo8015]

Very nice video. It feels so nice to see people getting up-to-date by learning blender.

[@mergimdemkuanimationstudio4671]

one Word "DATASMITH", it is not perfect but works very good. I use it in Unreal 5.1 and i get all materials and textures into Unreal. As you said we need to prevent over work for nothing. The only Nodes that can be imported actually are the texture (image) nodes. Thats why i try to keep my uvs clean and for large areas i use cube map projection. For me Datasmith is actually better than using fbx for unreal imports. I hope it gets better :D

[@Viscte]

Thank you. Not enough people seem to be aware of datasmith

[@sysghost]

Interesting to see how two different branches of the entertainment industry start to merge. Meet in the middle. Game engines are capable enough to be a viable option in the movie industry, and software from the movie industry can be used for games.

[@MMALAB]

Great information here.

[@done.6191]

WONDERFUL. Thanks!

[@eric24g]

Crazy bc I was looking at unreal videos and said to myself. Im going to start modeling everything in blender and render in unreal engine. I downloaded unreal and haven't used it yet. Then this video showed up on my feed. I gotta get going now. Lol

[@TonyTheYouTuba]

Great overview, these higher level view workflow videos are very useful, thanks.

[@codes4046]

been needing a video like this! This clears up a lot of confusion about blender to UEFN (The Unreal Fortnite Editor) as well!

[@zaks7]

4:48 I work with FBX imports to blender sometimes at work, and from what I've found, that's a limitation of the filetype. I don't know if its different in other software like 3ds max, but every time I import something as an FBX into blender, I have to deal with a whole host of messed up origins and relationship lines all leading to one random point. At least in blender you can just right click and set origin to geometry in all of them. It's slightly better when going from blender to unity because of the native .blend support. Maybe that's what a future update may bring us.

[@janvollgod7221]

yes, FBX is a pain in Blender. They improved it over the years, but its still not user-friendly. For concepts, i always use OBJ instead. Especially when exporting object with boolean and cutting on it. FBX mess, for no reason, randomly points up.

[@Ahtisham]

Man this comment section is as helpful as this video was, this is so cool.

[@Covidcola]

I believe you can change the origin of the mesh in Unreal through the Modeling Mode, however it is best to do it as you mentioned.

[@cristhianferreyra610]

Buenísimo!!!🎉🎉🎉muchas gracias!!

[@PolyCharmStudios]

Even more powerful with high poly generator 😎

[@2009heyhow]

5:50 Would be great if we could use some live link plug in boft software packages. And that Blender or Unreal has a texture node system that works with the other software. This way you can texture your objects in Blender and see the real time result in Unreal. This already excists with Substance Painter but i left this texture package since Adobe took it over...

[@joseruano539]

Please SOM make a blender course and i'm 100% sure I'm gonna buy it, I need it so bad!

[@saemranian]

It was so helpful and thanks for your sharing.

[@Supreme-Emperor-Mittens]

All I know is this ... If EPIC ever decided to add a Full 3D Modeling Suite into UNREAL BLENDER could be in some trouble. 😨😱

[@katbmwh1101]

Amazing stuff

[@joespadaford8736]

My biggest issue with unreal is that it is always crashing on me and I have a decent cpu. I hired a guy to do a set for some development and it just crashed all the time. He constantly had to optimize to add more foliage on his cpu because he was always running out of space. Also the files project file sizes were huge. I love the way unreal looks and I want it to be what I use but I can’t work on something that crashes all the time. A friend has a show that is all unreal. They had to hire a coder to make software to make it usable. I love that it’s working for you. I just don’t get how you get it to not crash all the time.

[@Native_Creation]

You need a decent GPU as well.

[@Johnyazell-r2f]

Your computer is prob at fault unreal is GPU dependent

[@missbootleg]

This was awesome thank you

[@mipe7755]

Actually, you can use Datasmith to transfer pretty much the entire scene from Blender to UE, along with lights and some shader nodes, but I don't know if they ported the bridge to UE 5 yet.

[@janvollgod7221]

Datasmith don't work with Blender 3.xx and UE5.x as far as i know. Correct me if i am wrong please.

[@DavidBoura]

@@janvollgod7221 i'd like to know too.

[@Viscte]

There's an experimental version that's released for 5.2

[@GohersWay]

Hmn

[@DaveCastillo-t3c]

Hello! Love your page's concept. I’m interested in buying your artwork. Thanks! ❤️🙏

[@framex_media]

Excelent, thanks for the insights!

[@ez6314]

Should you rig in blender or unreal engine?

[@intr4]

im confused why u used booleans to clean up the photoscan mesh

[@rezainjust]

Great Video

[@skeletonking4119]

THIS!! IS! POWERRRRR!!

[@emilemassie]

Please take a look at USD (Universal scene description)

[@PERRIERhp]

UE5 supports GLB as far as i know, and GLB retains those PBR parameters so you might want export in GLB format. Or better use USD ( Universal Scene Descriptor) because it's the new industry standards and it just works, like everything without tweaking a bit.

[@wallacesousuke1433]

Blender doesn't support USD does it?

[@PERRIERhp]

@@wallacesousuke1433 it fully supports USD import and export, use newer version of blender

[@CGToonStudio]

Is the problem of the Origin point solved?

[@bigtoebennie]

Awesome thanks!

[@noushinpourmirza3054]

Thank you so much. I imported the USD file into Unreal, and the first time, my mesh appeared without the curve modifier. After applying the modifier in Blender and re-importing it into Unreal, nothing showed up. Could you please help me figure out how to fix this? Thank you.

[@meme_tunnel]

Dat skeleton in thumbnail was actually my pc after watching this💀⚰️

[@AarronChittock]

What scanning app are you using at the moment?

[@AmIAFilmmaker]

Polycam for quick and dirty stuff, and realitycapture for anything that I really want great detail from.

[@VorpalForceField]

Great info .. Thank You for sharing .. Cheers :)

[@TheElephantRoom1]

exzzzzellent video

[@MrInnovativeEnergy]

no SendToUnreal?

[@junito1957]

very very true , best with the best

[@K2unit3d]

Not to take away from your video as you do have information that helps. There is a Blender to Unreal plugin for Unreal that allows importing of whole scenes. Every object and collection can be imported and uses the PBR workflow node to automatically setup your materials.

[@wallacesousuke1433]

Is it up-to-date? The page date says: July 29, 2020

[@K2unit3d]

@@wallacesousuke1433 As far as I know. I used it with 5.2 for work and it did everything properly. I can say the only thing it doesnt do is bring textures in that arent setup with the principled shader

[@BilgeSamet]

Can we talk about the speed of placing bets on 4ra? Blink and it’s done! 🌪️

[@nontimehistory5679]

I want to create a plan of my town in medieval times. I’m struggling to find any tutorials for this. I’ve used blendergis but it’s not good for finer details like little rivers and hills. Should I just recreate the town plan using a canvas in unreal as my guide, or is there a way of sculpting the blendergis export. Thank you.

[@currenluna]

THANK YOU!

[@SamBenPro]

Hey great video thanks, how about you make scene comparisons? Render times, quality, path tracing etc..

[@jasonsharp8621]

I'm curious about vfx effects transferring in to UE5 from Blender.

[@janvollgod7221]

the new 5.2 is great. Many good stuff. What i miss is a Live Link Bridge or like Houdini has, directly a Node Access. The Point is, doing modification on the fly, for an already imported object, is a pain in the ass. Especially when positioning and scaling was involved. I know there was a good project for a Plugin, but obviously it's stalled 2015.

[@Viscte]

Like datasmith?

[@jasonderuger5452]

When you go from blender to UE5, does your weight paint forfeit during that process? Rigs as concerned.

[@blenderjunkyriz]

I was hoping you were going to answer the one question I have about importing from Blender to Unreal. Importing a model made up of multiple objects and that has multiple textures added to it, how is that process? Importing a single object like the Skeleton seems straight forward but the other doesn't seem as cut and dry. If I have a sci fi model that has rigged components for example, like landing gear how does this translate to Unreal Engine and what is that process like? Would I simply not check the selected object option so it brings in the entire scene or is there another step that needs to be taken into account?

[@basisturm8862]

U can Export the different individuell parts of your object with different materials as fbx. In unreal make sure to uncheck combine meshes. U will get Ur different parts with different materials. In unreal u can ether Group or combine the parts to move around together.

[@massivetree7937]

You can move the origin point in Unreal.

[@vikentijslauruts2153]

hey man thanks, this helped me :)))

[@AviusL]

Excuse meeee?... Superinflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man*... Ty. Great video!

[@guruware8612]

So when you rotate something, you kind-a rotate something. Is it the same with moving ? moving something is kind-a moving ? I'm just kind-a watching while watching. Just kind-a saying.

[@Harsh-pq7nk]

Will the geometry nodes /baking /smoke , fluids effects of blender will work on unreal engine

[@o7z-o7z]

5:55　物理演算などをalembicファイルで出力しueに持っていく

[@santiagocamino9324]

you can change temporaly the origin with Alt+middle click

[@alexanderwoodcock7549]

And what about vdbs, lighting and camera movement?

[@sappireflames0009]

if I create scenes in unreal, how do I make it believable? such as adding cracks and chips to concrete? I thought of using a boolean to some rock shape, but then the texture disappears.

[@sulivarace7138]

I can't find a tutorial on the materials, I'm trying to export my skin shader from blender to unreal or else, recreate one but I'm new to the engine and so far I haven't found anything conclusive, apparently c it's the color ramp that's missing. If you have a good link or a place where I could detail information, I'm interested as well as learning how to create these materials well on unreal.

[@-Dragonfyr-]

Question. New to Blender. New to Unreal Engine. Want to get into 3D design. Which program do I go with learning? Experience: Basic Cinema4D. Pretty good with Photoshop, Lightroom, Premiere. Interests: Sci-fi. World creation. Character design. Video content. Thanks

[@whoamI-tk3qz]

Other than video content( editing stuff not cgi and animation) blender can do pretty much all of that

[@parchinbales9211]

Hi, could you make a tutorial, how to export cinematic quality animation to video? Because I'm getting low quality every time I bake my animation to video 😭😭

[@slycreature972]

"Send to Unreal" plugin is MUCH more comfortable than exporting .fbx!

[@lunaticinsanee]

you are the guy from the free guy movie right?

[@NikGamer1793]

Can we change ue5 mouse navigation controls like that in blender? As switching from blender to ue5 is really confusing when we navigate with mouse.

[@miyabi2603]

Where can I buy this course?